My little Petal is 7 already. I can hardly believe that this much time has gone by. My girl had a lovely day at school and bought home a little present which she was very happy about and a dress covered in stickers from all the teachers. She is loved! We had a little party for her, well it was a gathering, (A couple of surprise visitors) fish and chips and CAKE, which seems to constitute a party. I love that she had a table of pink presents and was thrilled with each and everyone of them. the cupcakes turned out well on the second attempt. I found that using natural red colouring does not give it the correct colour and adding un-natural red colouring turns them BROWN ARGHHH so on our second attempt we stuck to the recipe and they worked a treat. The cake which I did was not grand, it was very simple butterfly cake decorated with icing and hundreds and thousands. (I realised that I desperately need to do a cake decorating course if I am going to continue the tradition of making them each year) was very happily received by all. That is what really counts. My petal told me at the end of the night that she was VERY happy that she received quite a few books, a barbie, a strawberry shortcake girl and other lovely things. I didn't make her something to wear this year. I was a bit distracted so I will have to save it for Xmas I think.
Last night we went to Bunnings to see Vasili! HOW MUCH FUN DID WE HAVE!!!! YEAH. I won a prize, by answering a question on water savings amazing that one of the facts and figures floating around in my head came in very handy. It is his new magazine "good gardening". This is not the first time that we have spoken to him however the kids are a bit older now and thrilled to bits. Especially as we were watching him on tv just before we went to see him. My red headed hurricane told him that he is VERY magical as he was able to pop out of the tv at our house and come down to Bunnings even when the tv was turned off! It was a wonderful evening of amazing things that we learnt. About grafting as many species of citrus to the lemon tree as we like. 23 or more! Look out lemon tree, he solved the problem for our little lemon tree in the wine barrel. We learnt about life cycles of the gall wasp and his campaign to have a national gall wasp pruning day. I do hope he succeeds! He talked about eco-oil and other natural remedies for getting rid of pests in the garden. Told stories of his lovely house that he used to have, more importantly of the garden that he has left behind and would desperately wants to buy it back. We had pizza and was entertained with Greek music. We made friends and watched the children play on the jumping castle, do crafts and listen to Vasili and get our book signed and a photo taken nothing was too much trouble! What an amazing man he is. Make sure you watch him on Chanel 31 7:30pm Wednesdays or download his show from the website. All in all it was a great night.
http://www.vasilisgarden.com/
I bought my first online magazine. Toffee! I haven't had a look yet been so busy culling, more culling and painting. I am trying to get the rest of the inside open plan area painted or at least undercoated. I need to keep busy at the moment. Plus it is a busy time of the year. Ideally I would like to renovate during the day and sew in the evening however that is not happening at the moment.
Being summoned I will talk again soon
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